“Why would we ever want to go to Mars? As pictures beamed back from planetary probes and rovers since 1964 have shown, Mars is a desolate, lifeless planet with seemingly little to offer humans. It has a very thin atmosphere and no signs of existing life — but Mars does hold some promise for the continuation of the human race. There are more than six billion people on Earth, and that number continues to grow unabated. This overcrowding, or the possibility of planetary disaster, will force us to eventually consider new homes in our solar system, and Mars may have more to offer us than the photos of its barren landscape now show.”

What is terraforming?

Wikipedia states that “Terraforming (literally, “Earth-shaping”) of a planet, moon, or other body is the hypothetical process of deliberately modifying its atmosphere, temperature, surface topography or ecology to be similar to those of Earth to make it habitable by terrestrial organisms.

“Scientists have made various proposals to induce a greenhouse effect on Mars through the use of mirrors, atmosphere factories or asteroid impacts. We could melt the polar ice caps to release trapped carbon dioxide or generate greenhouse gases in factories. In time, we could theoretically start using widespread atmosphere factories to turn carbon dioxide into oxygen in a manner similar to plants.”

Sound familiar? Isn’t this what we are experimenting with right now on earth?

Yes, it’s called geoengineering?

The following video:

Part I of III released July 20th, 2011

Aerospace programs connection to GEOENGINEERING. This is a THREE part series. We discuss The MINING Projects on the MOON and Mars, the potential risks, the companies involved, and why has it been kept from the PUBLIC?

WHY DO THEY MINE THE MOON FOR OLIVINE when we have it here on earth?
The mineral olivine (when gem-quality also called peridot) is a magnesium iron silicate with the formula (Mg,Fe)2SiO4. It is a common mineral in the Earth’s subsurface but weathers quickly on the surface.

JAXA SELENE Moon Project : Launch of H-IIA F13 carrying SELENE (Photo by Narita Masahiro)
Far side of the Moon, photographed by Apollo 16, credit NASA
This view from orbit shows the full Moon partially obscured and deformed by the Earth’s atmosphere. NASA image
Earth and Moon from Mars, imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. From space, the Earth can be seen to go through phases similar to the phases of the Moon.
The first photograph ever taken by astronauts of an “Earthrise”, from Apollo 8http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/neo/neo_flash.cfm
(NASA,http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/90a.jpg)

Artist’s concept of Solar Power Satellite in place. Shown is the assembly of a microwave transmission antenna. The solar power satellite was to be located in a geosynchronous orbit, 36,000 miles above the Earth’s surface. NASA 1976.

How did Mars Die?
According to scientists, early Mars had a magnetic field and studies show that that when Mars was a mere 500 million years old, its magnetic field withered away. It is known that streams of ionizing particles spewing from the sun strip away a planet’s atmosphere, killing any life that may have emerged or forcing it underground. Earth is no different than Mars in that respect.
What was the cause?

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A GLOBAL WARMING?
NASA The U.S. space agency announced this week that it had selected competing mission proposals from two Boulder, Colo.-based institutions to spend the next nine months and $2 million refining their concepts in advance of selecting one of the missions in late 2007 for full development as NASA’s next Mars Scout mission. The chosen mission would have to launch by 2011 at a cost of no more than $475 million. The two finalists were selected from more than two-dozen proposals the agency received last summer.MAVEN: Mars Atmosphere and Evolution Mission
To observe “Mars climate and habitability and improve understanding of dynamic processes in the upper Martian atmosphere and ionosphere”.WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH EARTH and GEOENGINEERING?
NASA and Wikipedia:
“Planetary Engineering is the application of technology for the purpose of influencing the global properties of a planet.” “Perhaps the best-known type of planetary engineering is Terraforming.
“Geoengineering is the application of planetary engineering techniques to Earth. Recent geoengineering proposals have principally been methods to tackle human-induced climate changeby either removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (e.g. usingocean iron fertilization) or by managing solar radiation (e.g. by using mirrors in space) in order to negate the net warming effect of climate change.
The late Carl Sagan said that it is ” humanity’s moral obligation to make other worlds suitable for life”.
Others tend to believe terraforming would be an “unethical interference in nature, and that given humanity’s past treatment of the Earth”…

“Christopher McKay, who argues that terraforming is ethically sound only once we have completely assured that an alien planet does not harbor life of its own; but that if it does, while we should not try to reshape the planet to our own use, we should engineer the planet’s environment to artificially nurture the alien life and help it thrive and co-evolve, or even co-exist with humans.”

March 12, 2013 Update:

“We have found a habitable environment that is so benign and supportive of life that probably if this water was around and you had been on the planet, you would have been able to drink it,” said chief scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology.

March 13, 2013 Update:

ESA and the Russian federal space agency, Roscosmos, have signed a formal agreement to work in partnership on the ExoMars programme towards the launch of two missions in 2016 and 2018.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-imag…Recent photos of Mars give us proof that Life currently exists on Mars: Recent Images released by NASA/JPL show Mars Is In Fact full of living forms of life. Trees, vegetation, intelligently constructed buildings. Could this be from Terraforming Mars, and if so, what are we using?

JAXA SELENE Moon Project : Launch of H-IIA F13 carrying SELENE (Photo by Narita Masahiro)
Far side of the Moon, photographed by Apollo 16, credit NASA
This view from orbit shows the full Moon partially obscured and deformed by the Earth’s atmosphere. NASA image
Earth and Moon from Mars, imaged by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. From space, the Earth can be seen to go through phases similar to the phases of the Moon.
The first photograph ever taken by astronauts of an “Earthrise”, from Apollo 8http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/neo/neo_flash.cfm
(NASA,http://www.thespacereview.com/archive/90a.jpg)

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